They climbed down through the trees.
The building was surrounded - guards at every step, smiling at the crowd personnel moving through the perimeter with the urgent efficiency of people dealing with an incident they'd already been told to classify as something else. Getting down through the front was impossible. Getting down through the maintenance ladder was risky. So they went sideways - from the roof's edge to a branch that overhung the building's western wall, the one Raizen climbed with Hikari before, when the Echelon activated the anti-gravity mechanism. They went down through the canopy's network of limbs and trunks, moving from handhold to handhold and branch to branch with more care than necessary.
